WIND-BLOW DAMAGE

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30399, 25 March 1964, Page 8

WIND-BLOW DAMAGE

Waipara Area Inspected Wind-blow damage on farms in the area of the Glenmark catchment scheme at Waipara 1 was inspected by Mr D. R. t Wilkie, district soil conser- 1 vator of the Department of Agriculture, and Mr R. A. ’ Milne, officer in charge of the ’ Rangiora office of the Depart- J ment of Agriculture. Some persons believe the ’ area might be considered for ■ special assistance against ( winds as is the case with j gorge mouths. In such cases | subsidies are given for tree i planting. ] Mr Wilkie said that he had ( inspected three fields which < had been subjected to wind- 1 blow. It looked as though the i grass had been beaten down 1 and stripped and the field was I in such a state that it was still blowing. I One was a paddock just 1 worked up for sowing. The : soil had been moved from 1 high spots and deposited in 1 the gullies. It had been esti- ’ mated that possibly an inch of top soil had been blown . off the field. At the foot of J this field soil was piled up , to about the bottom wire of ‘ the fence and the adjoining ■ grass paddock had a grey , tinge for some distance out • caused by the depositing of ] soil. , In another field the ground ; had been worked up and sown to grass, which had ’ struck and was two or three ' inches high. In a further field where 1 lucerne seed worth about £lOO had been sown on rolling hill country and was just striking nicely the worst affected area of possibly 10 acres had been stripped right down to the hard soil. An American food firm has developed an anti-ulcer concentrate made from raw cab- ( bage juice. The firm claims it ’ is more beneficial to peptic ; ulcer sufferers than raw cabbage juice and much more palatable.